My daughter's mouth surgery is over and done with. It took a few extra weeks because they kept rescheduling it on us due to the doctor's schedule but it's done.
She had an impacted incisor that wouldn't come down. They waited and waited for it and nothing. So they cut through her gums on Friday and went hunting for it. They found it up close to her nose! Nice place for the little bugger to hide. It was quite deep.
So, they cemented a little button (like a tiny door knob) onto the tooth up inside her gums and attached a wire to it. They ran that wire from the button on that impacted tooth out of her gums and attached it to her braces and added a few stitches to her gums to close her up. They will slowly tighten that wire to bring that tooth down in small amounts over the next couple of months.
It's a painful process they've said. The mouth surgery went better than I expected and motrin is taking care of a lot of the pain for her. The way they talked though, it's going to be bad for her every time they tighten it so I am not looking forward to that.
This poor kid has had hell in her mouth. Seriously! She's had her palate broken to widen her mouth. That dropped all the impacted teeth down but this last one. She's had baby teeth pulled, teeth moved this way and that during all of this, trying to get them set up so when they're all down, she'll have a nice set of teeth.
We could have decided not to do all of that and just had some of her adult teeth pulled so they weren't all crowded in there but what kid wants to start out with less than a full mouth of teeth, especially in the front? Not mine. She was willing to go through what she needed to and she's getting a pretty smile out of it. If it'd been a back tooth, well then she probably wouldn't have minded but she wanted her front teeth in place.
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